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name=Duplica |

jname=イミテ|

tmname=Imite |

image=Duplica.png |

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age=no |

colors=yes|

eyes=Brown |

hair=Blue |

gender=Female |

hometown=Unknown |

region=[[Kanto]] |

relatives=Unknown |

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leader=no |

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anime=yes |

epnum=EP037 |

epname=Ditto's Mysterious Mansion |

enva=[[Megan Hollingshead]] |

java=Orine Fukushima |

'''Duplica''' (Japanese: '''イミテ''' ''Imite'') is a young girl who works as a performing [[Pokémon Trainer]] and impressionist. Her character was probably based on that of the {{OBP|Copycat|character}} from {{game|Red and Blue|s}}.

Duplica has appeared in two anime episodes. Her first appearance was in ''[[EP037|Ditto's Mysterious Mansion]]''. {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} were traveling through [[Kanto]] when they sought shelter from the rain in an abandoned mansion. The house was actually called "The House of Imite" and it was owned by Duplica and her {{p|Ditto}}. She showed them Ditto's ability to transform into any Pokémon. A skeptical Ash sent out his {{AP|Bulbasaur}} to battle Duplica's Ditto. Surprisingly enough, Bulbasaur lost against the imitation. Duplica then explained that her Ditto had trouble transforming one aspect of it, its face. No matter what Pokémon it {{m|Transform}}ed into, it always retained the beady eyes and wobbly mouth of a Ditto.

{{TRT}} kidnapped the Ditto. They wanted to have Duplica's Ditto Transform into a {{p|Dratini}} so they could give it to {{an|Giovanni}}. After a while, they were able to train it to Transform perfectly. After Ash, {{an|Brock}}, Duplica, and {{an|Misty}} dressed up as Team Rocket and rescued Ditto, Duplica felt she was ready to open up her mansion as a theater to entertain passing Pokémon Trainers.

Later, in ''[[EP174|Imitation Confrontation]]'', Brock noticed that a [[Nurse Joy]] they were talking to was an imitation. It turned out to be Duplica, who had come to the local town for a Pokémon Acting Competition. She had another Ditto, Mini-Dit, with another problem. It could Transform into perfect replicas of other Pokémon, in every way but size. So when it transformed into an {{p|Onix}}, she had a tiny, hand-held Onix.

Team Rocket stole Mini-Dit and planned to have it transform into a Pokémon that they could pass off as a rare, pygmy version, so that they could get a rare and powerful Pokémon in return. Duplica recovered Mini-Dit and decided that its unusual transformations made it unique; the audience seemed to agree.

Although Duplica sometimes performs by imitating Pokémon herself, her usual shows feature her imitating a Pokémon Trainer while her Ditto imitates that Trainer's Pokémon. She did an excellent impression of Ash and [[Nurse Joy]], for instance.

|desc=Duplica's first and main {{p|Ditto}}. Unlike most Ditto, it could not change its face when it {{m|transform}}ed into other [[Pokémon]], but it eventually learned.}}

|vajp=Satomi Kōrogi

|desc='''Mini-Dit''' (Japanese: '''メタぴょん''' ''Meta-pyon'') is the second Ditto owned by Duplica. Unlike other Ditto, this one doesn't change its [[List of Pokémon by height|size]] when it {{m|transform}}s. However, its other powers are all the same as a normal Ditto's.

Mini-Dit has also used {{m|Scary Face}}{{tt|*|Ash's Totodile's}}, {{m|Tackle}}{{tt|*|Ash's Totodile's; Totodile cannot legally learn Tackle in the games}}, {{m|Counter}}{{tt|*|Jessie's Wobbuffet's}}, {{m|Mirror Coat}}{{tt|*|Jessie's Wobbuffet's}} and {{m|Thunder}}{{tt|*|Ash's Pikachu's}} via Transform.}}

[[File:Duplica EToP.png|thumb|right|Duplica in the manga]]

* Duplica's first Ditto's habit of not transforming its face was originally presented as an anomaly. However, other Ditto with this trait have been seen in other media, such as the wild Ditto on [[Pokémon Island]] in [[Pokémon Snap]]. They also transform into the same Pokémon as Ditto did in Duplica's debut episode — a {{p|Bulbasaur}}. [[Ditto (TCG)|Ditto cards]] in the [[Pokémon Trading Card Game|TCG]] in which Ditto is seen transformed into another Pokémon also behave in this way. Additionally, in {{v2|Diamond and Pearl|s}}'s [[Veilstone Game Corner]], during the Game Corner slot machine game, a {{p|Clefairy}} with a Ditto face will occasionally appear instead of a real Clefairy.

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